UAE. The University of Manchester will host a series of three business masterclasses and an information session on the range of part-time Masters degrees available in the region for qualified working professionals, in the UAE in January 2018.

All the events will be led by a senior member of the university’s business school faculty. In addition to learning more about specialist subject areas, the sessions are an opportunity for qualified working professionals in the UAE to discuss their career, training and development goals, and to learn more about the university’s part-time Masters programmes and shorter executive education courses.

Associate MBA Director, Professor Xavier Duran, will deliver a business masterclass focusing on Interdependence and Competitive Strategy, which Xavier teaches on the Manchester Global MBA programme. The session will introduce participants to intuitive insights that Game Theory and the Economics discipline can provide to better understand interdependence and their role in competitive strategy. The focus will be on practical application to the real business world.

Arif Khurshed, Professor of Finance at Alliance Manchester Business School will lead the masterclass. Finance is a part of the toolkit that managers can use to understand and resolve business issues because knowledge of finance enables managers to understand how they can influence the process of creation of value in their firms.

This masterclass focuses on the importance of finance for effective company management and integrates text and substantive real world cases to show how to use financial concepts and tools to solve business problems encountered in modern organisations. The approach will be conceptual as well as practical and will emphasise general principles. The intention will be that masterclass participants can apply these general principles to analyse new issues as they arise.

Randa Bessiso, Director - Middle East, The University of Manchester, comments: “At the start of a new year and in a rapidly changing business environment, working professionals need to understand the increasing complexity of business and be aware of the growing range of high quality business education opportunities available to them in the region. Our hosted events enable working professionals to gain insights into subject matter and meet our world class faculty, and learn more about business education and related career opportunities in the region.”

The University of Manchester Middle East Centre has supported more than 2,200 part-time MBA students based in the region and has graduated more than 1,100 students since opening in Dubai Knowledge Park in 2006, making it the largest and fastest growing centre in the University’s international network. The part-time study option leads to the award of internationally recognised Masters degrees awarded by the University of Manchester.

The University of Manchester Middle East CentreThe University of Manchester Middle East Centre at Dubai Knowledge Park opened in 2006 and is the largest and fastest growing in the university’s international network comprising six hubs in the key business cities around the world. The Centre has supported more than 2,000 Manchester Global Part-time MBA students in the region, and graduated more than 1,000 MBA students.

The Middle East Centre has recently launched a new portfolio of executive education programmes and is introducing a series of new, industry-led specialist Masters programmes in 2017; the first of these include the MSc Reliability Engineering and Asset Management, MSc International Healthcare Leadership, and MSc Occupational Medicine. The Centre works in regional collaborations with a range of industry groups, professional bodies and companies, and supports a regional alumni association with more than 2,500 members.

About The University of ManchesterThe University of Manchester is currently delivering a £1 billion 10-year masterplan for its campus to create world-class facilities for staff, students and visitors. This includes the redevelopment of the Alliance Manchester Business School, the £350m Manchester Engineering Campus Development and the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC). Completed projects so far include the award-winning National Graphene Institute and The Whitworth Art Gallery.

Issued on behalf of The University of Manchester Middle East Centre by WPR.